MATLAB: Using fopen, textscan for TXT file but each line cut off at space. How to resolve the issue

fopentextscantxt file

I have a large txt file containing the filepaths for specified files.
Ex:
H:\Vicon_data\modified2AFC\Clarkson 2AFC\M29AA216\M29AA216afc01c1asfh_0000.3LA
My code:
%read the text file
fileID=fopen('Master_inventory.txt');
inventory = textscan(fileID,'%s %*[^\n]');
d = inventory{1};
c = cellstr(d)
Result in command window:
'H:\Vicon_data\modified2AFC\Clarkson'
NOTE: The example path is one of +28000, which are distributed into different folders, so I can't go back and delete the spaces from the folder names.

Best Answer

I'm partial to
inventory=textread('Master_inventory.txt', '%s', 'delimiter', '\n', 'whitespace', '');
as it saves the extra f[open|close] step required in textscan
Your problem is the single %s will interpret up to a whitespace character as the string and then you told it to skip the remainder of the line.
The above to switch delimiter to newline and eliminate whitespace parsing works with textscan, too, though, if you prefer to stick with it.
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